BANNED BOOKS WEEK WEBQUEST
GUIDING QUESTIONS
Directions:
1.
SAVE this document to your workspace on the server.
2.
Locate the questions for your role below.
3.
Use them to guide your research.
4.
Type your answers to each question in this document.
5.
Copy and paste the website URL’s you used to answer each question below your answer.
6.
As you finish your work in the lab each day, SAVE the document again on the server AND on your flash drive.
QUESTIONS FOR THE BOOK SPECIALIST:
*Answer all questions (except #6 below) in complete sentences.
** REMEMBER: List URL’s used to answer each question under that question.
1. SUMMARIZE the book’s plot in 4-6 complete sentences (without giving away the ending).
You might begin with this:
“This book is about a character named ______ who _____ . . .”
2. Describe the book’s setting (time and place) in 3-5 complete sentences.
3. List and give descriptions/details about the book’s main characters (at least three characters; each description in 2-3 complete sentences).
4. What is a major theme (moral or lesson) of the book? Identify and explain it in 2-3 complete sentences.
5. Provide a short, summarized biography of the book’s author (4-6 complete sentences).
Include such details as:
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Date of birth (and death, if deceased)
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Place of birth
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Number of books written
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Most popular books
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Other important details of his/her life
6. Create a Works Cited List for your questions (do after you finish all of your research):
REMEMBER: You (Book Specialist) are responsible for typing the group’s entire Works Cited list.

QUESTIONS FOR THE BOOK CHALLENGE/BAN SPECIALIST:
*Answer all questions (except #1 and #4 below) in 3-5 complete sentences.
** REMEMBER: List URL’s used to answer each question under that question.
1. Where has this book been challenged/banned? (1-2 sentences)
2. Why has it been challenged/banned?
3. How does the book’s author feel about censorship of his/her book and/or of books in general? (NOTE: Include direct quotations—statements made by the author—for this question and place them in “quotation marks”)
4. Create a Works Cited List for your questions (do after you finish all of your research):

QUESTIONS FOR THE IMAGE SPECIALIST:
* REMEMBER: List the URL for each image directly under that image.
**NOTE: When using Google images, make sure you capture the correct URL.
To do this, click on the “Website for this image” link to the right of the picture.
DO NOT use a URL that begins with www.google.com/images . . .
1. Search Google Images (images.google.com) to find ten (10) relevant still images (photos and/or clip art) to go along with the information gathered by the other group members.
2. Make sure the images are of good size and quality. After you search a keyword in Google
Images, scroll down and select Medium or Large (below where it says “Any Size”). In general, the larger the number (ex: 560 X 780), the better the quality of the picture.
3. Save each image in Jpeg format:
A. Click on Full Size Image to the right of the picture.
B. With your mouse on the picture, right-click.
C. Choose Save Image As from the choices.
D. Change the File Name to something that will help you to remember what the image shows.
E. Below File Name, change Save as Type to Jpeg.
F. Create a folder on your flash drive called Webquest Images. Drag all pictures into
that folder.
4. Also save each image in this document, with the Works Cited entry right below it (see #5 below).
5. Create a Works Cited list for all images you find (do after you finish all of your research):

QUESTIONS FOR THE PROJECT DIRECTOR/TECHNOLOGY EXPERT:
1.
Your “questions” are, instead, a fill-in document/checklist to help you to manage the group’s work.
2.
PRINT your part of this document (this page to the end of the document).
3.
As you complete each step, have the teacher initial that step.
Our group’s book and author: _________________________________________________________
Group members (*Remember to list below who will have the back-up flash-drive):
Project Director/Tech Expert (your name): _________________________
Book Specialist: _______________________________________________
Book Challenge/Ban Specialist: ___________________________________
Image Specialist: ______________________________________________
STEP
STEPS Checklist (continues on next page):
RESPONSIBILITY DUE DATE DATE COMPLETED TEACHER
All group members
INITIALS
1. Role Assignment
Students will decide who will fill each role:

Project Director

Book Specialist

Book
Challenge/Ban
Specialist

Image Specialist
ALSO:
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Decide who will back up the completed work on his/her flash drive
2. Research:

Questions
Answered
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Works Cited entries below each question/ image
(everything must be printed when presenting to the teacher)
1. Book Specialist
2. Book Challenge/
Ban Specialist
3. Image Specialist

STEP RESPONSIBILITY
3. Project Proposal:

Typed

Lists format type
(PSA, School
Board meeting, author interview)
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Lists choice of
technology tool
(PowerPoint,
Glogster,
Blabberize, Prezi)
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Includes a 2-3 sentence description of the presentation
4. Mastery of technology tool
(training with Mr.
Tantum)
5. Typed script:
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5 copies printed
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1 given to teacher for approval
6. Works Cited List:
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Printed, complete Works
Cited list
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Includes
everyone’s citations
7. Creating the Pieces of the Final Project:
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Voice-over
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Importing and resizing images
(provided by
Image Specialist)
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Informational text
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End credits:
> Works Cited
> Group member names: First and last initials only
> Class period
8. Assembling All Pieces of the Final Project
Project Director
Project Director
Image Specialist
Book Specialist
Your group will assign roles (list here):
Project Director
DUE DATE DATE COMPLETED TEACHER
INITIALS

STEP
9. Project Editing
10. Completed Project
Uploaded to Site
RESPONSIBILITY
All members
Project Director
DUE DATE DATE COMPLETED TEACHER
INITIALS